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Not really. And agency is entirely local. Your body has more agencies than you can ever keep track of. My back? Wants a stretch. Cardiovascular system? Wants some exercise. Prefrontal personality structure? Wants problems, context, meaning. Genitals? Some fuk. It's all nested.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Sep 29, 2018

The idea that a particular you needs to be "empowered" is itself disempowering, a form of learned helplessness. Empowerment is autonomy and self-determination. The fewer elements of this body are slaved to an imaginary self, the more autonomous they are.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Sep 29, 2018

If i took advice from "most people" on how to frame my sense of self post-awakening, I would still be stuck trying to reify no-self into Jhanas.

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"Wow this feels so real and authentic. Let me just fix everything on this. Jesus, I feel so good. Holy shit it's all so crazy. Whole world is billowing in waves and - hold up this is starting to feel a lot like turbulence wait help I am trapped in my foot!"

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Yeah. I fixed so much concentration on the transitory movement of attention, when attention moved to my foot the whole ego moved with it. Felt like puking. Don't let rubes define self/no-self for you. Trust your training. It's all just sensation.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Terminology is nebulous and contradictory. I have not had every experience or attainment entailed in someone's practice, real or imaginary, obviously. It's "a" no-self, but what would be "the" no-self?

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Sep 29, 2018

Which is why I don't do that. I reject appeals to textual authority. I describe my experiences and hear yours. There is nothing else I'd value doing, here.